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SOME  INTERESTING  BOOKS 
NEW  AND  OLD 
IN  THE 

RED  STAR  COLLECTION 


MISSOURI  UNIVERSITY  LIBRARY 
JANUARY,  1911 


ADD  AMS.  Twenty  years  at  Hull-house. 

A  wonderful  record  of  accomplishment,  full  of  sug¬ 
gestion  to  social  reformers  and  to  a  much  larger  circle 
of  readers. 

BENSON.  Silent  isle. 

The  reflections  and  intimate  thoughts  of  this  “artist 
in  words”  are  here  set  forth  for  all  who  would  enjoy  a 
pleasant  hour. 

BIRDSEYE.  Reorganization  of  our  colleges. 

He  has  pointed  out  the  most  serious  defect  in  ourj 
colleges  and  a  remedy  that  appears  to  be  as  comprehen¬ 
sive  as  the  ill  it  is  designed  to  cure. 

BURROUGHS.  Camping  and  tramping  with 
Roosevelt. 

Interesting  sidelights  on  Roosevelt,  Yellowstone 
park,  Yosemite  valley,  nature  study  and  hunting. 

CAMP.  Tbe  book  of  football. 

College  men  will  Avelcome  the  personal  note  and 
the  manliness  with  which  Mr.  Camp  tackles  the  ball. 

CHESTERTON.  What’s  wrong  with  the  world.  ' 

Brilliant,  paradoxical  and  entertaining  essays.  1 


CROTHERS.  Among  friends. 

All  the  essays  are  excellent. 

DE  MORGAN.  Joseph  Vance. 

A  book  that  must  ^take  its  place  as  the  first  great( 
English  novel  that  has  appeared  in  the  twentieth  cen-| 
tury. 

ENOCH.  Great  Pacific  coast. 

Open  the  book  where  we  will,  we  find  something  to| 
interest  and  to  entertain. 


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GALSWt*STri[Y..  Strife. 

One  of  the  remarkable  dramas  played  by  the  New 
Theater  Company. 

TllLDER.  Grover  Cleveland,  a  record  of  friend- 
ship. 

Friends  of  both  Grover  Cleveland  and  of  the  late 
£  editor  of  the  “Century  magazine”  will  read  this  book 
with  interest. 


HALL.  The  soul  of  a  people. 

^0  A  personal  and  most-interesting  account  of  the  se¬ 
rial  life  and  customs  of  the  Burmese. 

HEWLETT.  Open  country. 

Halfway  house. 

Rest  harrow. 

Three  novels  on  the  borderland  between  prose  and 
poetry  and  full  of  the  charm  of  the  out-of-door  atmos¬ 
phere. 


HOWELLS.  Imaginary  interviews. 

Very  pleasant  reading  for  those  who  enjoy  a  harm¬ 
less  play-acting  with  life  and  ideas. 

HOWELLS.  My  Mark  Twain. 

The  genial  spirit  of  the  immortal  fun-maker  himself 
?  is  ever  present  in  this  chronicle  of  a  rare  friendship. 

JANVIER.  Henry  Hudson. 

Gives  the  spirit  of  Hudson’s  voyage  in  that  cruel 
and  harsh,  and  yet  ardently  romantic  time. 

J  ASTROW.  Qualities  of  men. 

Interesting  to  anyone  having  a  taste  for  psychologic¬ 
al  discussion. 

KENNEDY.  Servant  in  the  house. 

Those  who  cannot  see  the  play  should  read  the 
book ;  those  who  can  should  do  both. 

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KIPLING.  Kim. 

There  is  a  fine  antidote  to  all  manner  of  morbidness 
in  the  brilliant  pages  of  Kim. 

KIPLING.  Rewards  and  fairies. 

For  the  exceptional  child  and  for  all  grown  people 
this  latest  Kipling  volume  will  be  a  joy  forever. 

LUCAS.  Listener's  lure. 

A  bit  of  good  comedy  and  delightful  asides :  and  the 
story  goes  on  its  way  to  a  happy  ending. 

MAETERLINCK.  Blue  bird. 

Those  who  like  “The  little  white  bird”  and  “Peter 
Pan”  will  delight  in  the  poetic  beauty  and  freshness  of 
feeling  of  this  modern  fairy  play. 

MAETERLINCK.  Mary  Magdalene. 

As  literature  and  as  a  study  in  the  ennoblement  of  a 
woman’s  soul  it  is  an  intellectual  achievement  of  a 
high  order. 

MAHAN.  Interest  of  America  in  international 
conditions. 

A  masterly  sketch  of  international  relations  at  the 
present  time. 

MATTHEWS.  Moliere. 

The  first  adequate  biography  in  English. 

MAUPASSANT.  Odd  number. 

A  collection  of  the  choicest  stories  by  this  master 
of  the  short  story, 

MEREDITH.  Ordeal  of  Richard  Feverel. 

It  is  no  injustice  to  the  author’s  other  books  to  say 
that  Richard  Feverel  is  fuller  of  fine  things  than  any 
one  of  them,  brilliant  as  each  is.  The  greatest  thing  in 
it  is  the  matchless  lyric  of  the  early  love  of  Lucv  and 
Richard. 


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MOD JESKA,  Memories  and  impressions, 

A  most  entertaining  autobiography  of  this  unusual¬ 
ly  gifted  woman  who  has  helped  develop  dramatic  taste 
and  dramatic  art  during  the  past  fifty  years. 

MONYPENNY.  Life  of  Benjamin  Disraeli.  Vol¬ 
ume  I. 

An  excellent  biography  that  arouses  the  highest 
hopes  for  the  volumes  yet  to  come. 

MORRIS.  Story  of  the  glittering  plain. 

A  mediaeval  romance  full  of  the  charm  of  beautiful 
landscapes  and  the  atmosphere  of  fairyland. 

MUIR.  Our  national  parks. 

Written  by  a  genuine  lover  of  nature  who  knows 
more  about  the  forests  and  streams,  the  mountains  and 
glaciers,  the  flowers  and  animals  of  the  Pacific  slope 
than  any  other  living  person. 

PARKER.  Cumner’s  son  and  other  South  Sea 
folk. 

The  stories  show  the  author’s  keen  sense  for 
dramatic  situations  and  have  the  fascination  of  the  un¬ 
usual. 

PARKMAN.  Count  Frontenac  and  New  France 
under  Louis  XIV. 

Count  Frontenac,  so  the  author  declares,  is  “The 
most  remarkable  man  who  ever  represented  the  Crown 
of  France  in  the  New  World.” 

PEARY.  North  pole. 

It  is  a  story  of  intense  interest,  effectively  told, 

PEIXOTTO.  Romantic  California. 

Even  if  the  219  pages  of  reading  matter  in  this  vol¬ 
ume  were  less  alluring,  the  profuse  illustrations  would 
make  it  a  strong  ally  of  the  tourist  maxim,  “See  Am¬ 
erica  first.” 


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RIIS.  Making  of  an  American. 

An  autobiography  of  singular  merit  and  frankness 
and  so  full  of  interest  that  he  who  begins  it  must  finish 
it. 

ROQSEVEET.  African  game  trails. 

A  wise,  manly  and  most  invigorating  record. 

ROSS.  Eatter  day  sinners  and  saints. 

A  fresh  and  arresting  expression  of  oft-repeated 
truth. 

ROSTAND  Chantecler,  tr.  by  Gertrude  Hall. 

In  this  translation,  the  reader  whose  French  has  a 
single  rusty  joint,  will  get  practically  all  of  the  sub¬ 
stance  and  no  little  of  the  spirit  of  a  most  interesting 
play. 

SIDE.  Poems. 

Read  “Opportunity”  and  “A  fool’s  prayer”  in  this 
collection  and  you  will  wish  to  read  the  other  poems 
and  discover  other  gems. 

SMITH,  Goldwin.  Reminiscences;  edited  by 
Arnold  Haultain. 

An  unusually  interesting  and  instructive  personal 
narrative. 

STANEEY.  Autobiography. 

This  book  is  nothing  short  of  absorbing  in  its  inter¬ 
est,  not  so  much  on  account  of  the  information  it  gives, 
as  for  the  spirit  with  which  Stanley  approached  the 
hard  life-problems  he  had  to  solve. 

STEVENSON.  Weir  of  Hermiston. 

The  author’s  skill  in  investing  with  absorbing  in¬ 
terest  whatever  he  chooses  to  tell  is  most  noticeable  in 
this  book. 


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WHARTON.  The  hermit  and  the  wild  woman. 

A  collection  of  excellent  short  stories. 

WHITE.  Rules  of  the  game. 

The  author  has  not  written  as  strong  a  story  as  the 
“Rules  of  the  game.” 

WHITE.  Seven  great  statesmen  in  the  warfare 
of  humanity  with  unreason. 

The  reader  of  this  single  volume  will  get  a  better  in¬ 
sight  into  the  great  events  and  the  great  human  forces  in 
European  history  than  he  would  be  likely  to  do  in  a 
more  ambitious  course  in  mediaeval  and  modern 
history. 

WIECOX.’  Rockies  of  Canada. 

The  book  deserves  its  lasting  popularity  for  it  is 
useful,  and  a  guide  to  natural  beauties  that  some  day 
will  count  their  annual  pilgrims  by  thousands.  The  il¬ 
lustrations  are  beautiful. 

(Some  of  the  notes  are  from  reviews  cited  in  the 
Book  Review  digest. 


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